Improved clothes washer and wringer



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo REUBEN Gr. HOLMES, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JONATHAN LUTHER, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVED CLOTHES WASHER ANDWRINGER.

Specification forming partvof Letters Patent No. 33,8152, datedNovember 2G, 1861.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, REUBEN G. HOLMES, of Worcester, in the county of W'orcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Clothes Washing and Wringing Device; and I do hereby ticolare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description' of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specilication, in which- Figure l is a vertical section ot' my invention, taken in the line wx, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section ot the same, taken in the line y y, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two iigures.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of clothes-wringers in which elastic pressure-rollers and rubber springs are einployed for expressing the moisture from the clothes.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, l will proceed to describe it.

A represents a bed-piece, to which two uprights, B B, are permanently secured, said uprights being connected at their upper ends by a cross-bar, C. The inner side of each upright B is grooved vertically, as shown at d, and through the lower parts of said uprights a horizontal shaft,D,passes, one end of which has a crank, E, attached. The shaft D has an india-rubber roller, F, placed on it, and on this roller F a similar roller, Gr, bears. The journals of the roller G are tted in slides H, and these slides are placed in the grooves a a and allowed to work freely up and down therein. On each slide TI there is placed an india-rubberspring, I. These springs t in the grooves ct a, and each spring has a guide-rod, J, passing vertically through it, which rods tit into the slides II H, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. On

the top of the springs I I the ends of a bar,l

K, rest, and through the center of the crossbar C a screw, L, passes, said screw working in a nut, M, in the bar O. The lower end of the screw L bears upon bar K.

From the above description it will be seen that by adjusting the screw L the pressure ot' the roller G on roller F may be graduated, as desired, while the india-rubber springs I admit of the upper roller yielding or giving to suit the varying thickness of vthe layer of clothes passing through them.

The bed-piece A may be secured to a washtub or any convenient xture. The crank E may be turned by hand, the clothes passing between the rollers F G, and subjected to the requisite pressure by adjusting-screw L.

There are no metal parts with which the clothes come in contactin passing through the machine. The shaft D is covered by the lower roller, F, while the guide-rods J of the springs I are equally as well covered. The clothes therefore cannot be soiled or dsfigured by iron-rust, as is the casein using all the machines of the kind with which I am acquainted.

I do not claim separately any of the withindescribed parts irrespective of their particular application and arrangement herein shown; but

I do claiin as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an improved article ol manufacture, the arrangement of the guides J with the rollerslides H, rollers G, springs I, and bar K, as herein shown and described.

R. G. HOLMES.

Witnesses:

J. M. GooDELL, `R. CURTIS. 

